edindivd

Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: Maine Department of Education (MEDOE), Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)
Publication Date: 20050501
Publication Time: Unknown
Title: edindivd
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Series Information:

Series Name: Maine GIS
Issue Identification: SDE server; Internet Data Catalog

Publication Information:

Publication Place: Augusta ME
Publisher: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)

Other Citation Details: 1:24000
Online Linkage: http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Description:

Abstract:
EDINDIVD contains polygons delineating individual school administrative units in Maine at 1:24,000 scale. A city or town with individual school supervision is a single municipality. A school committee administers the education of all grades in the city or town through a superintendent of schools. The city or town charter usually determines the method of budget approval. In many cities and towns, the City Council or Town Council has final budget approval. Since it is a single municipality, cost sharing is not a factor. EDINDIVD was created from the Maine GIS coverage METWP24, a town boundary data layer derived from USGS 1:24,000 scale quadrangle maps. MEDOE provided access to their business table of townships and school administrative units. MEGIS staff joined the table to METWP24 polygons using the township name with a live link. The data represents the most up to date information available from MEDOE.
Purpose:
One of several data layers produced for Maine Department of Education to display the affiliation of townships for educational purposes. Not intended for uses at scales greater than 1:24,000. Data at this scale is suitable for use in detailed studies and local planning.
Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 5/1/2005
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: Present
Ending Time: Unknown

Currentness Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: Continually

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

West Bounding Coordinate: -70.95255
East Bounding Coordinate: -67.77103
North Bounding Coordinate: 47.35593
South Bounding Coordinate: 42.91131

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO Keyword Thesaurus
Theme Keyword: society
Theme Keyword: boundaries

Theme:

Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Maine GIS Thesaurus-Theme
Theme Keyword: education
Theme Keyword: school administrative units

Place:

Place Keyword Thesaurus: Maine GIS Thesaurus-Place
Place Keyword: Maine
Place Keyword: United States

Stratum:

Stratum Keyword Thesaurus: GCMD Parameter Keyword
Stratum Keyword: human dimensions

Access Constraints:
Secondary distribution by permission only. Please see Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) License Agreement at http://megis.maine.gov/ . Any secondary distribution must have this documentation appended.
Use Constraints:
Users must assume responsibility in determining the usability of this data for their purposes. Digital maps retain the accuracy of their source materials. The best use of data mapped at scales of 1:500,000 and 1:250,000 is in statewide planning and studies; at 1:100,000 in regional planning and studies; at 1:62,500 and 1:24,000 in detailed studies and local planning; and at 1:12,000 and 1:5,000 or larger scales in parcel level studies and detailed local planning. In the use of Maine GIS data, please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the correct copy of both data and metadata from the Maine GIS Data Catalog. The Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) provides notice of updates and corrections directly to the Maine GIS Technical Group and Maine GIS Users, through the MEGISTECH and MEGISUSER list servers. To subscribe please contact MeGIS through the Maine Office of Information Technology (OIT) Customer Support Center (CSC) at (207) 624-7700. To request data correction in, or provide updates to Maine GIS data, please use the contact information contained in the metadata. Updates, corrections, and feedback, incorporated in the Maine GIS database are made in accordance with "Data Standards for Maine Geographic Information Systems", 2002, and coordinated by MEGIS in consultation with the Maine GIS Executive Council.
Point of Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: (MEDOE) Maine Department of Education

Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 23
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333 0023
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 207 624 6600
Contact TDD/TTY Telephone: 1 888 577 6690
Contact Facsimile Telephone: 207 624 6700
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800-1700 EST

Data Set Credit: Credit should always be given to the data source and/or originator when the data is transferred or printed.
Native Data Set Environment:
Maine Office of Information Technology (OIT) Oracle 9i, Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS), Maine GIS SDE, SDEUSER, SDE.DEFAULT, Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Attribute Accuracy:

Attribute Accuracy Report:
MEDOE attribute coding in this layer was verified at MEGIS by visual check of EDINDIVD polygons against a Maine Department of Education list of townships with individual school districts. MEDOE provided final approval that the coverage accurately reflected individual district status on completion.
Logical Consistency Report: Data set meets "Data Standards for Maine Geographic Information Systems", 2002.
Completeness Report: Data set is complete. The adopted coding scheme reflects that commonly in use, at the Maine Department of Education, at the time of publication.
Positional Accuracy:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report: Approximate horizontal accuracy is +/- 12 meters, assuming source data meets National Map Accuracy Standards.
Quantitative Horizontal Positional Accuracy Assessment:

Horizontal Positional Accuracy Value: 12
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Explanation: Compilation base data meets National Map Accuracy Standards for 1:24,000 scale. Horizontal positional accuracy for this digital data is tested by visual comparison to the source.

Lineage:

Source Information:

Source Citation:

Citation Information:

Originator: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS)
Publication Date: 20070701
Publication Time: Unknown
Title: metwp24
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: vector digital data
Series Information:

Series Name: Maine GIS
Issue Identification: SDE server; Internet Data Catalog

Publication Information:

Publication Place: Augusta ME
Publisher: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Other Citation Details: 1:24000
Online Linkage: http://megis.maine.gov/catalog/

Source Scale Denominator: 24000
Type of Source Media: online
Source Time Period of Content:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 1/1/1948
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: 8/22/2005
Ending Time: Unknown

Source Currentness Reference: source dates

Source Citation Abbreviation: metwp24
Source Contribution: spatial polygons

Process Step:

Process Description:
The Maine Department of Education ( MEDOE ) gave MEGIS permission to link directly to their business databases. MEGIS live-linked these databases directly to 1:24,000 municipal spatial data ( METWP24 ) based on township name. As changes are made in the MEDOE databases it is reflected immediately in the spatial data.
Source Used Citation Abbreviation: metwp24
Process Date: 20050501
Process Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: (MEGIS) Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Contact Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 145
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333-0145
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: (207) 624-7700
Contact Facsimile Telephone: (207) 287-3842
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Cloud Cover: 0

Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector

Horizontal Coordinate System Definition:

Planar:

Grid Coordinate System:

Grid Coordinate System Name: Universal Transverse Mercator 1983
Universal Transverse Mercator:

UTM Zone Number: 19
Transverse Mercator:

Scale Factor at Central Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude of Central Meridian: -69
Latitude of Projection Origin: 0
False Easting: 500000
False Northing: 0

Planar Coordinate Information:

Planar Coordinate Encoding Method: Coordinate Pair
Coordinate Representation:

Abscissa Resolution: 1
Ordinate Resolution: 1

Planar Distance Units: meters

Geodetic Model:

Horizontal Datum Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis: 6378137
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257

Detailed Description:

Entity Type:

Entity Type Label: EDINDIVD
Entity Type Definition: polygon feature class
Entity Type Definition Source: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

Attribute:

Attribute Label: GROUPCODE
Attribute Definition: A code used to group the school administrative units.
Attribute Definition Source: Maine Department of Education

Attribute:

Attribute Label: GROUPNAME
Attribute Definition: Name used to identify school administrative units.
Attribute Definition Source: Maine Department of Education

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MSAUADMIN
Attribute Definition: Name identifying a type of administration organization.
Attribute Definition Source: Maine Department of Education
Attribute Domain Values:

Enumerated Domain:

Enumerated Domain Value: M
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: individual/municipal school administrative unit
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source: Maine Department of Education

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MSAUCODE
Attribute Definition: A code identifying the type of administrative organization.
Attribute Definition Source: Maine Department of Education

Attribute:

Attribute Label: MSAUNAME
Attribute Definition: Name of the school administrative unit.
Attribute Definition Source: Maine Department of Education

Attribute:

Attribute Label: SUPCODE
Attribute Definition: A code assigned to superintendent office to enable MEDOE to identify all administrative units under one superintendent.
Attribute Definition Source: Maine Department of Education

Overview Description:

Entity and Attribute Overview: The specific attributes for school administrative units were provided by the Maine Department of Education.
Entity and Attribute Detail Citation:
The ArcView shapefile and ArcGIS geodatabase formats, commonly used for Maine GIS data, carry default identifiers and attributes that are software generated and/or important for internal recordkeeping. These are listed here to avoid repetition for every layer, and may not be repeated in the attribute descriptions and definitions of each layer. Common software generated identifiers and attributes in Maine GIS data include: FID (feature identifier), Shape (feature geometry), OBJECTID and SHAPE_lengt. In addition, most GIS formats will carry fields for PERIMETER, AREA and/or LENGTH according to feature geometry. These fields are typically available by default, with the units based on coordinate system or projection units of GIS data. Most GIS software packages also provide a means to calculate these values. It is important to test any columns containing PERIMETER, AREA or LENGTH values before using them for analysis purposes. These important values can be carried from format to format and become out-dated. Verify that the values are correct. Also, in your GIS software, please view the properties of data layers for the map units used to calculate these fields, and for the units set for display purposes.

Distributor:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: (MEGIS) Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Contact Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 145
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333-0145
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: (207) 624-7700
Contact Facsimile Telephone: (207) 287-3842
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Distribution Liability:
Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems, no warranty expressed or implied is made by MEGIS regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Neither the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems, nor any of its contributors, is liable for misuse of the data, for damage, for transmission of viruses, or for computer contamination through the distribution of these data sets.
Standard Order Process:

Digital Form:

Digital Transfer Information:

Format Name: ESRI Shapefile
Format Version Number: ARC Version 9.x
Format Specification: ArcView Shapefile Format
Format Information Content:
MEGIS has made all vector layers, in the Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog, available in ESRI's ArcView shapefile format. A shapefile is a simple non-topological format that stores the geometry and attribute information for a set of geographic features as a set of vector (point, line, polygon) coordinates. Shapefiles draw quickly and directly in ArcView, ArcGIS, ArcExplorer. Shapefiles are a compatible data type for many other types of GIS software. Three files are fundamental to each shapefile: .shp stores the feature geometry (shape and location information); .shx stores the index of the feature geometry; .dbf a dBASE (TM) file stores the attribute information for the features. Other index files may be created to help speed analysis and query: these file formats are .sbn .sbx .ain .aix .fbn and .fbx. In addition you may find projection .prj, and metadata .xml, files associated with shapefiles.
File Decompression Technique:
Data available from this website is in .zip compressed format. WinZip is a Windows based, PKZip-compatible compression utility. You will need a program like this to extract the data. A link to a trial copy WinZip software is available at http://megis.maine.gov/links/.
Digital Transfer Option:

Online Option:

Access Instructions:
These data are available to Internet browsers for download from the Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog. Data available from this website is in .zip compressed format. WinZip is a Windows based, PKZip-compatible compression utility. You will need a program like this to extract the data. A link to a trial copy WinZip software is available at http://megis.maine.gov/links/. If you are not already a GIS user, free software for viewing these files is available from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI). See http://megis.maine.gov/links/ for a link to ArcExplorer 9.x .
Digital Transfer Option:

Online Option:

Access Instructions: Where file size and Internet access permit, data requests can be made available via File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Fees: Data may be downloaded from Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog at no charge.
Turnaround: Data is available for immediate download from the Maine GIS Internet Data Catalog.

Standard Order Process:

Available Time Period:

Time Period Information:

Range of Dates/Times:

Beginning Date: 2/12/2004
Beginning Time: Unknown
Ending Date: Present
Ending Time: Unknown

Distributor:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: (MEGIS) Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Contact Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 145
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333-0145
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: (207) 624-7700
Contact Facsimile Telephone: (207) 287-3842
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Distribution Liability: Users must assume responsibility to determine the usability of this data for their purposes.
Standard Order Process:

Digital Form:

Digital Transfer Information:

Format Name: ARCSDE
Format Version Number: ArcSDE 9.x
Format Information Content: Oracle 9i

Digital Transfer Option:

Online Option:

Access Instructions: Please contact the Maine Office of GIS (MEGIS) for access instructions.

Fees: Access is available through Maine's wide area network; WAN users may contact the Maine Office of Information Technology, Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS) for a login.

Metadata Date: 5/1/2005
Metadata Review Date: 9/25/2007
Metadata Future Review Date:
Metadata Contact:

Contact Information:

Contact Organization Primary:

Contact Organization: Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems

Contact Position: GIS Coordinator
Contact Address:

Address Type: mailing address
Address: State House Station 145
City: Augusta
State or Province: ME
Postal Code: 04333-0145
Country: USA

Contact Voice Telephone: 207 624-7700
Contact Facsimile Telephone: 207 287-4563
Hours of Service: Monday through Friday 0800 - 1700 EST

Metadata Standard Name: Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Access Constraints: None
Metadata Use Constraints: None